Richard Evans, president of PepsiCo in the UK and Irish Republic, defended the scale of top bosses' salaries after they were criticised in a new report by the High Pay Commission. Mr Evans said the UK has to be competitive. "If we want great people to come and work in the UK, given it's a global talent pool, we've got to be prepared to pay the amount of money that those executives can get elsewhere in the world," he told the BBC.